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Description
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The survey on gender role stereotypes and the social image of violence seeks to be the tool for analysing cultural models and some of the factors influencing attitudes towards violence against women among the adult population. The used questions gather gender role stereotypes, opinions on the acceptability of violence, its permeation and its causes as well as some stereotypes about sexual violence.
The spread of gender role stereotypes, on the one hand, and the attitudes towards violent behaviour, on the other, are in fact the keys to understand the cultural context in which violent relationships find their genesis and justification. As declared by the Istanbul Convention, knowing about them is essential to a better understanding of the causes of violence and monitoring them over time in order to evaluate, at least partially, how policies involving violence prevention impact the population in terms of cultural change.
Istat carries out the survey on gender role stereotypes and the social image of violence as a part of a partnership agreement with the Equal Opportunities Department at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (DEO).
The first edition of the survey was carried out as an ad-hoc module in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and addressed a sub-sample of respondents aged 18 to 74 during the June - November 2018 period.
In the second edition, carried out in 2023, the survey was extended with new questions, some of them related to the socio-economic well-being of the respondents.
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